Abstract
This article [1] has been retracted at the request of the authors. Upon re-review of the data, we realized certain patients did not meet inclusion criteria. Per IRB guidelines, after removing three subjects who either had BMI 65 or BMI 40 (even though they had undergone bariatric surgery) and one control subject from the study, we re-analyzed the data set. The removal of these subjects from the analysis had no effect on our findings or conclusions. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief has invited the authors to re-publish their study with updated results. All authors agree to this retraction.